Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Ass'n v. Allied Van Lines, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

This putative class action by Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. (“Association”) and Rodney Rockwell1 against Allied Van Lines, Inc. (“Allied”) and *281TFC, Inc. (“TFC”) has been hanging fire for a fair amount of time at the class certification stage, because the parties’ extensive briefing has necessitated a hard look at the criteria established by Fed.R.Civ.P. (“Rule”) 23 in the context of the claims advanced in the Complaint. In the past this Court had little occasion to write on the class certification subject, for…